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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It better than RCS/SMS and Signal isn’t normie compatible

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

normie compatible. hah.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But if you want to talk to people who don't have whatsapp you still have to use SMS or something else, i don't get why people think these apps are somehow magically better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The number of people whose phone number I know and don’t use WhatsApp is pretty close to zero.

But I’m not in the US so YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

i mean i'm not in the US either, i have never heard of anyone using whatsapp here in sweden. the standard is sms and some people use facebook messenger or apple imessage, both of which have sms fallback which is why anyone uses them at all.

the idea of the standard being something that has no sms fallback is absolutely absurd to me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Here in Finland WhatsApp is the default, kids get it on their phone the second they get one. Even my 85yo grandma uses it.

I haven’t received a single SMS that wasn’t from an automated system in a good decade or so.